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UNITED sTATEs PATENT cia-nica.

A. E. TAYLOR, OF OGDENSBURG, NEW YORK.

BELL ATTACHMENT.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 30,509, dated October 23,1860; Ressued December 15, 1868, No. 3,234.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, A. E. TAYLOR, of Ogdensburg, in the county of St.Lawrence and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved BellAttachment for Doors; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and eXact description of the same, reference being had tothe annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which-Figure 1, is a face view of the mechanism by which the bell hammers areoperated,

the bell being bisected as indicated by the line ac, Fig. 2, in order toshow the mechanism. Fig. 2, is a vertical section of the bell andmechanism connected with it, taken in the line y, y, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the twogures.

This invention consists in arranging with a stationary bell attached toa door or doorpost a striking mechanism in such a sway that by rotatinga crank in either direction a hammer will be actuated and the bellstruck.

The invention is designed to supersede the employement or use of theordinary door knockers, and in many cases the usual door bells which areactuated by pulls.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct myinvention I will proceed to describe it.

A, represents a metal plate to the center vof which a stud B, isattached at right angles, said stud forming a support or means ofattachment for a bell C, of the usual stationary kind, which is attachedto the stud by a nut a, the edge of the bell being Within a shortdistance of the plate A. To the side of the plate A, that faces the bellC, a lever D, is attached, b, being its fulcruIn pin. One end of thislever is forked as shown at c, c, and the prongs are opposite levers d.These levers have their fulcra at c, e, which attach them to the plateA, and the levers at one end terminate in springs f, f, with heads orhammers g, attached, one to each spring. Against each lever d, a springzi, bears, said springs being attached to the plate A, and bearingagainst the levers al, at the sides opposite to those against which theprongs c, c, of the lever D, bear. To the plate'A, two pins or stops z',z', are attached, one near each lever (Z, said stops serving as bearingsfor the levers preventing them from being unduly acted upon by thesprings 7L, h.

E, is an arbor which passes through the plate A, and has a circular diskF, attached to its end. This disk has a series of pins or studs y',projecting from it near its periphery at right angles, and the end oflever D, the end opposite the prongs c, projects within the plane of themovement of said pins as shown clearly in Fig. 1. To the outer end ofthe arbor E, a crank G, is attached.

The plate A, is secured by screws c, to the inner side of the door or tothe doorpost, or stile of the door casing H, the arbor in so doing thesprings f, f, in consequence of the stops z', i, suddenly arrestingtheir movement, will force the hammers quickly against the bellproducing the necessary sound.

This invention may be applied to any door and will prove to be :farsuperior to the ordinary knockers, and preferable to the usual doorbells when applied to the doors of houses that have no basement, as themajority of country houses, in which case the bells are hung in thehall. These bells as at present arranged are quite expensive, requiringan expert to hang them and they are very liable to get out of repair. Myinvention may be applied by almost any person, as little or nomechanical skill is required in attaching it to the door or stile of thedoor frame or casing.

Having thus described my invention what the bell C, to operate as andfor the purpose set forth.

A. E. TAYLOR.

Witnesses:

ELIJAH G. WHITE, WILLIAM JONES.

